548 pages : 25 cm

Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-536) and index

Introduction / Krystyna Pomorska -- Part I. Questions of literary theory. On realism in art ; Futurism ; Dada ; The dominant ; Problems in the study of language and literature (with Jurij Tynjanov) ; Language in operation ; Linguistics and poetics ; Two aspects of language and two types of Aphasic disturbances -- Part II. Grammar in poetry. Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry ; Grammatical parallelism and its Russian facet ; Baudelaire's "Les chats" (with Claude Levi-Strauss) ; Shakespeare's verbal art in "Th' expence of spirit" (with L.G. Jones) ; Yeats' "Sorrow of love" through the years (with Stephen Rudy) ; Subliminal verbal patterning in poetry ; Supraconscious Turgenev -- Part III. Writer, biography, myth. On a generation that squandered its poets ; Marginal notes on the prose of the poet Pasternak ; The statue in Puskin's poetic mythology ; What is poetry? ; Notes on myth in erben's work ; In memory of V.V. Hanka -- Part IV. Semiotic vistas. Quest for the essence of language ; On linguistic aspects of translation ; A glance at the development of semiotics ; Musicology and linguistics ; Is the film in decline? ; On the relation between visual and auditory signs ; Motor signs for "yes" and "no" ; On the verbal art of William Blake and other poet-painters

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